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So the HIP MENTION is pretty buried in this link.... and it's someone's number 10... but it seems the boys are there with our IBE !!!

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I think there is close to 30 critics.... to scroll through... so here's the critic who knows what's up!

RICHARD SKANSE
1. Terri Hendrix, The Art of Removing Wallpaper (Wilory): Americana-folk-pop's most consistently refreshing voice reveals her most personal (and even sensual) collection of songs yet, and fires fearless broadsides at Clear Channel and religious hypocrites just for good measure.
2. U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (Interscope): Yeah, technically, they're still backpedaling. But whether they're moving forward, backward or running to stand still, U2 remain timeless, and their latest "miracle drug" packs one hell of an emotional wallop.
3. Chrissy Flatt, Walk With Kings (chrissyflatt.com): A "singer-songwriter" with a rocker's bite and a wicked way with melody worthy of Del Shannon and Buddy Holly. Not bad with a Kinks cover, either.
4. Nellie McKay, Get Away From Me (Sony): Why split an hour's worth of music over two discs? Because there's too much talent, wit, charm and inventive pizzazz here to fit onto just one. The year's best debut.
5. Jon Dee Graham, The Great Battle (New West): The former True Believers guitarist's fourth solo album is half ragged, rocking and raw and half tender and wise. At its best (the title track), it's all that at once.
6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Anti-): The Gospel according to Nick, chock-full of supernatural wrath and beauty. Staggering in lyrical wit and musical scope.
7. Wilco, A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch): I don't have a clue what "pure bug beauty" is, but I'm pretty sure it sounds just like this. I'm also sure that no song has ever sounded better on an open road than "Spiders (Kidsmoke)."
8. The Real Heroes, Greetings From Russia (Rec. Center): Proof that prime Bowie and Cheap Trick go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Austin's Real Heroes are the best rock band in America you haven't heard of. Yet.
9. Kasey Chambers, Wayward Angel (Warner Bros.): Motherhood and mainstream success (at least Down Under) have polished away some of her gritty edge, but her one-of-a-kind voice and melodic instincts remain impeccable.
10. The Tragically Hip, In Between Evolution (Zoe): Canada's answer to R.E.M., U2 and occasionally even the Rolling Stones serve up their best batch of anthems since 1998's Phantom Power.
Reissue: The Kinks, Muswell Hillbillies (Konk/Velvel/Koch): The deluxe, three-CD import Village Green Preservation Society is a doozy, but all those bonus tracks pale next to the ramshackle beauty of Ray Davies' "Americana" album in glorious SACD.

Hey that's pretty cool!

I noticed a couple of those critics also mentioned Ron Sexsmith and K-Os. It's nice to know that there are still a few people at Rolling Stone who actually have good taste.

Cool. But I disagree. REM is the Hip of America.

I see a bunch of no-names on hose lists, so this provides shallow comfort.

Roy-at-tth Wrote:I see a bunch of no-names on hose lists, so this provides shallow comfort.

Not sure of the correlation between "name" bands and good music myself. Would you feel better if Nickleback was on the list?!? :lol:

I'm looking forward to checking out some other artists on this list. He's got three of my fave CDs of the year on there (Hip, U2, Wilco) so I'm thinking he likes my kinda music. :thumb:

To put any of these lists in perspective 2 "critics" also pick Avril and the Dears......I HATED the Dears.

Quote:1. The Dears, No Cities Left (spinART): A Baroque rock masterwork from Murray "The Black Morrissey" Lightburn and his merry men and women of Montreal

and for good measure another one

6. The Dears, No Cities Left (Spin Art): The Dears are masters at sweeping psychedelic pop with romantic bursts.

and another

6. The Dears, No Cities Left (spinART): Black Canadian named Murray makes the best Morrissey album since the Smiths broke up. Eh?

Still it is nice to see the hip mentioned..lets see what other groups are on their that i find woefully mediocre that the Hip should have been listed ahead of.

Quote:3. Jay-Z and Linkin Park, Collision Course (Warner Bros.): Not to be outdone by the unauthorized Grey Album, Jay-Z doesn't lose any street cred on this rockin' mash-up with Linkin Park.

Reissue: Britney Spears, Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (Jive): It took two quickie marriages, but we finally get it: Britney's really not that innocent, which makes her Lolita-pop even more delicious.

3. Jadakiss, Kiss of Death (Interscope): Now that Jay-Z's, um, retired, there's pretty much nobody with a more compelling flow. And here he's even got something to flow about.

Wow Jadakiss :thumb: big thumbs up to that one Confused

cratch:
I know everyone is allowed to have their own opinions but do they even listen to the albums before the make their choices.

One choice I do completely agree with for the reissues

Quote:Reissue: Brian Wilson, SMiLE (Nonesuch): Possibly the most anticipated release ever, and worth the almost four-decade wait, with its mind blowing arrangements, huge melodies and whimsical imagery

And they finally noticed Sarah Harmer!!

Quote:9. Sarah Harmer, All of Our Names (Cold Snap/Zoe): Singer-songwriter Harmer shares tales of obsession and loss with little fuss and no muss. She does pop right: clean, adult and eminently listenable

So while it is nice to see the hip on any top 10 list, them being on only 1 and at the buttom of it really means nothing to me after seeing some of the sad and pathetic choices that these "critics" made.

When exactly did Rolling Stones stop being about good music and just about any music. Makes me sad, how downhill this magazine has gone,

jkdiamond Wrote:To put any of these lists in perspective 2 "critics" also pick Avril and the Dears......I HATE the Dears.

Quote:1. The Dears, No Cities Left (spinART): A Baroque rock masterwork from Murray "The Black Morrissey" Lightburn and his merry men and women of Montreal

and for good measure another one

6. The Dears, No Cities Left (Spin Art): The Dears are masters at sweeping psychedelic pop with romantic bursts.

and another

6. The Dears, No Cities Left (spinART): Black Canadian named Murray makes the best Morrissey album since the Smiths broke up. Eh?

Still it is nice to see the hip mentioned..lets see what other groups are on their that i find woefully mediocre that the Hip should have been listed ahead of.

Quote:3. Jay-Z and Linkin Park, Collision Course (Warner Bros.): Not to be outdone by the unauthorized Grey Album, Jay-Z doesn't lose any street cred on this rockin' mash-up with Linkin Park.

Reissue: Britney Spears, Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (Jive): It took two quickie marriages, but we finally get it: Britney's really not that innocent, which makes her Lolita-pop even more delicious.

3. Jadakiss, Kiss of Death (Interscope): Now that Jay-Z's, um, retired, there's pretty much nobody with a more compelling flow. And here he's even got something to flow about.

Wow Jadakiss :thumb: big thumbs up to that one cratch:
I know everyone is allowed to have their own opinions but do they even listen to the albums before the make their choices.

One choice I do completely agree with for the reissues

Quote:Reissue: Brian Wilson, SMiLE (Nonesuch): Possibly the most anticipated release ever, and worth the almost four-decade wait, with its mind blowing arrangements, huge melodies and whimsical imagery

And they finally noticed Sarah Harmer!!

Quote:9. Sarah Harmer, All of Our Names (Cold Snap/Zoe): Singer-songwriter Harmer shares tales of obsession and loss with little fuss and no muss. She does pop right: clean, adult and eminently listenable

So while it is nice to see the hip on any top 10 list, them being on only 1 and at the buttom of it really means nothing to me after seeing some of the sad and pathetic choices that these "critics" made.

When exactly did Rolling Stones stop being about good music and just about any music. Makes me sad, how downhill this magazine has gone,

"One day, in the distant future. maybe 2010...The hip will release an album, so spectacular, that the USA will take hold of them, and pretend to have loved them all along.

will you be ready for that? Are you prepared for the impact on the canadian fans?

I am glad they are tenth on the list of one person, its comforting. Let american stadiums be filled with Simple plan. Screw em. Screw em all." *

*I am not making a hip vs usa comment. nor do i wish to discuss a hip vs. usa discussion, please ignore my comments.

Sorry about my double post I don't know why that happend Confused

cratch:

Hey Trips, no offense taken here but I do have to say something... As far as Simple Plan filling arenas... No Way... The only thing that fills arenas here in Michigan are Hip Hop shows, Pearl Jam and U2 when they tour. Most arena shows here are nowhere near sell outs. REM last year...1/2 full, Avril Lavigne a couple months ago...not quite 2/3rds full, Ted Nugent 1/2...Perfect Circle 2/3rds... I goes on and on... It's the state of music nowdays... in 10 years no band will have more than one popular album then the record company will dump them like all the rest of the flavour of the month bands out there today (and there are some good ones out there).... It amazes me that 60,000 people will pay $65 a ticket to hear a guy make up a bunch of dirty rhymes over pre recorded, computerized music (Eminem..etc) Cry

I appologize to all on Hipbase for my rantings.... :thumb: "The public gets what the public wants"... (Paul Weller..the Jam 1980 "going underground" 8) )

Perfect Circle sold out at the (Corel?) Center, good show.

Rem, i haven't seen since the free show in the T-dot, but they did sell out the amphitheater before that...I could see the new album not helping ticket sales, its pretty good, but its soooo mellow.

hmmm...i have no point...where am I...dinners ready...

"I thought Pearl Jam, was the Pearl Jam of Canada"

I too am glad to see TTH make Rolling Stone. I for one stopped reading those polls years ago as I find them self-serving and not much of a zeitgeist meter.

What I don't understand is the way Canadians feel about US music. I've said this before and I'll say this again...I don't think about music in terms of country borders. When I see a band I might passingly think about where they are from. But I don't dwell on it. The Hip could be from Perth for all I care. I love em and I'm in the states. And Cap't....I couldn't even tell you what Simple Plan is.

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Roy-at-tth

cferneyh

jkdiamond

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MountainHip

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